“Enrico Fermi created the world’s first nuclear reactor, and years later, became famous for asking why we hadn’t detected life out among the stars. Little did he know his greatest scientific feat was the answer.” ~The novel Motus, by P. A. Kramer
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The Motus Audiobook is Live!
The Audiobook for Motus is live and is available for preorder on Audible (Amazon) right now. I had a great experience getting the audiobook made, so I thought I would share some of those positive experiences as well as an interview with the amazing narrator.
Motus Cover Reveal and Pre-order Announcement
It’s been a busy few months. Getting a book ready for publication, and doing it right, involves a lot of people and patience. But I’ve finally incorporated edits from my editor, commissioned a cover from an artist, and put it up for pre-order. I'm excited to share the fruits of that labor.
Generative AI in creative writing-
There are so many arguments for and against generative AI in writing, art, and other creative endeavors, I can’t even pretend to have considered them all. However, I have collected enough observations to formulate a hypothesis. I also invite you, my peer reviewers, to let me know what conclusions are problematic and what confounders I failed to account for.
Operation Meltwater
"Operation Meltwater" was originally published by Baen Books in ROBOSOLDIERS: THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVOS in 2022. It is now free to read on my website.
Cephi
"Cephi" was a finalist in the 2017 N3F short story contest and was published in COLORED LENS the following year. It's now free to read on my website.
Feldspar
I'm happy to share my award winning hard Scifi story, FELDSPAR. This was published in 2017 on the Baen Books website after it won their short story award. After so many years, I thought it would make it available for all of you to enjoy on my website.
Writing Update 2022: “Operation Meltwater”
My novelette “Operation Meltwater” is being published on June 7th, 2022, by Baen Books in the anthology ROBOSOLDIERS: THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVOS. Stephen Lawson, the editor, reached out to me back in the Spring of 2020 and asked me to be a contributor alongside well-known, bestselling and award-winning authors like David Drake, Richard Fox, Weston Ochse, and Martin L. Shoemaker.
Writing Update- August 2019
I received some excellent news a couple months ago. My Sci-fi short story, “Cephi” was purchased by The Colored Lens. This story is set in the same universe as “Feldspar,” but instead of a Mars Rover, it’s a 3D printing submersible off the west coast. The story follows Jerry, a window-washer in LA. When he finally meets one of the people he’s glimpsed through a high-rise’s window over the years, she has a request that is impossible to ignore. The dirt and rock about to be dumped into the ocean as part of a city expansion project will destroy the fragile ecosystem she and other Terraform Game submersibles have built off the coast. And she thinks he alone can save it.
Writing Update- March 2019
It’s been a productive last few months, and I have some big news to share.
The first piece of news is that I’ve just had a sci-fi short story accepted in a reprint anthology titled Final Frontier. The editor, C. Stuart Hardwick, reached out to me a while back to see if I had something to contribute. The anthology will be released in time for the 50 year Anniversary of Apollo 11, and Stuart requested I submit a story that “celebrated the indomitable spirit that carried mankind to the Moon.”
